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made of methods of preparing, for provisioning cages for mailing 

 queenbeos, candy which v/i 11 conform with the regulations of the Post 

 Office Department and which will remain soft for some time. "any hun- 

 dreds of queens are now lost annually from food of poor quality. Jay 

 "-. Smith has been appointed temporarily for this work. 



'• D. Shaftesbury, a graduate student at the- Johns Hbpkinfi Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed for the summer months to conduct investiga- 

 tions in the changes occurring in the aging of boos. 



J. 3, Moorman, also of Johns Hopkins, has been appointed for the 

 summer and will assist in the effort to determine whether Tarsonomus 

 woodi . the purported cause of the Isle of V/ight disease of bees, is 

 present in the United States. There was recently published from the 

 University of Aberdeen the results of the work of Dr. J,.hn Ronnie and 

 his associates which show the parasitic and pathogenic nature of this 

 species. 



The Census data so far issued indicate a decrease in the number 

 of beekeepers on farms but an increase in the number of colonies of 

 bees. Bees in towns and cities are not included in Census returns and 

 as a result most conrnercial beekeepers arc omitted. The increase in 

 the number of colonies per beekeeper is quite to be expected because 

 of the increasing tendency toward the development of specialist bee- 

 keepers . 



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The National Museum has just received a fine collection of 

 named I.onididac (Cecidomyiidao, the gall midges ). a family of small 

 flics, from Dr. E.P. ?clt , State E .tomologist of New York. 



Part of this material was loaned to Dr. Pelt some tine ago for 

 study. Dr. Pelt Ins made a special study of this very important family 

 of flies. H. has also added quite a number of species new to the 

 Museum collection. This collection comprises about 800 microscope 

 slides and about 40 different kinds of galls, the work of these flies. 

 M-re than half of the species represented are from the type material. 

 T ere are "bout 270 species distributed in 71 genera, of which lfl- species 

 are represented by type material. 



This collection is now about the second best in the country. 



PIM 30LL'"0P,M COrFEHEEGE 



Fourteen cotton-growing States ere represented at 3 conference 



colled by the Department of A .■■■::.- 1 ture in h'shington May 16 to con- 

 sider the measures for eradicating the pink bollwor n from the United 

 States. The delegates attending included representatives from the 



